| 单词 | museum piece |
| 释义 | museum pieceSEE SYNONYMS FOR museum piece ON THESAURUS.COM nounsomething suitable for keeping and exhibiting in a museum. something very old-fashioned or decrepit: That car he drives is a museum piece. Origin of museum pieceFirst recorded in 1900–05 Words nearby museum piecemusette, musette bag, museum, museum beetle, museumgoer, museum piece, Museveni, Musgrave, mush, mush area, Musharraf Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for museum piecemuseum piece nounan object of sufficient age or interest to be kept in a museum informal a person or thing regarded as antiquated or decrepit Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with museum piecemuseum piece An elderly or old-fashioned item or person, as in When are you going to sell that museum piece of a car? or Aunt Jane comes from another era—she's a real museum piece. This expression originated about 1900 for an article valuable enough for museum display but began to be used disparagingly from about 1915. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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